Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-09-02

NOT Jne remouese cnance OF Gner Keeping 1t
even few minutes. Tradesmen lost it
through misrepresenting the value of their
GOODS manufacturers, through selling
adulterated articles; and even an artist,
who was famed as q seeker after ideal
truth, through willfully attempting to i'm
prove on nature in his landscapes and by
grossly f1attering in his portraits, likewise
lost it.
At last the despairing Yuddi gained
audience with the wisest man in the land,
the kings chief councillor. "You must be
very young and innocent to come to me,
nv child" he said when she had told the
reason of her visit. "Know that If I told
the truth to my royal master about some
of our foreign relations, or when he asks
me what his people think of him, I should
need about 100 lives year."
s'Then let me see the king" boldly
cried Yuddi: che at least has none to
fear"
"You think so, child? Well, will con-
trive you shall see him. But you may
have to wait long time"
Yuddi answered that she did not care
how long. The cloak was becoming an
intolerable burden to her, never long alb
sent from her sight, and it was in her
mind night and day, sleeping or waking.
She had need of all her patience, for
kings are not easily seen, especially by
the children of Ryots, as the Indian
peasants are called.
When she was admitted to the great
presence she krei6. covered her face. and
WAS roy nme zoo frightened to speak.
The king finally succeeded in reassuring
her, and she told her errand.
"And so you think, ~ said the monarch,
hot no tr11thf111 than
other people? You never made a greater
mistake You are too young to under
stand all the reasons why we are COM
peeled to falsify and deceive; but I will
tell YOU one or two Sometimes / have to
meet neighboring sovereign who is jeal-
GUS of me or I of him-with whom, per-
haps, have been at war; and who has
killed thousands of my people; yet have
to call him my loving brother 1 have
to put up with ministers I detest, because
the people demand that they shall be in
office. 1 have to tell my subjects that
I know they will cheerfully pay taxes and
vote supplies, when 1 feel the doing so
will make them suffer terribly. Go, my
child. Kings can speak less truth than
their poorest subjects"
On leaving the palace Yuddi met an old,
old mana kind of priest, or dervish, who
frequently preached to the people and
in the intervals of his preaching begged
for enough to keep him alive. He
was clad in the most wretched rags, and,
as Yudd passed, he asked for something
to get food and clothes. Immediately she
offered him the cloak, explaining upon
what conditions he could wear it.
II think / can keep it, my daughter.
| Come to me here tomorrow and see."
The next day Yuddi found him, still
wearing the cloak, and with its spotless
| purity unsullied.
elbow is it that you alone have been
| able to wear this fer day ?" she asked.
81 will try to tell you my daughter. !
am very old and have no wants but food
and clothing When I ask for money for
| these, speak the truth. I ask no man to
build me house or temple; therefore,
seek no more than my daily food have
no friends whom 1 must fiatter and no
enemies I need fear. have outlived all
but my love for God and his creatures,
and 1 have no aim but to do good to them.
I tell them that for their welfare here and
hereafter they must refrain from evil, and
call to them hourly to leave the wrong
| and seek the right. What reason have |
| to tell anything but the truth? l thank
| you for your cloak and I hope to wear it
| till die. Julian Magnus in The Epoch.